-Public release of LyX version 1.5.0 (beta 3)
+Public release of LyX version 2.3.6
===================================
-We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0 (beta 3).
+We are proud to announce the release of LyX 2.3.6. This is the sixth
+maintenance release in the 2.3.x series. We encourage all users to
+upgrade to this version.
-Compared with the previous beta release we have fixed several bugs
-and added some improvements, namely a new inset to support code listings.
+You can download LyX 2.3.6 from http://www.lyx.org/Download/.
-We have enabled the converter file cache by default.
+LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing based
+on the structure of your documents and not simply their appearance. It is
+released under a Free and Open Source Software license.
-Internally we have renamed files to follow a consistent name pattern,
-this will allow an easier navigation of the source code thus simplifying
-bug fixing.
+LyX 2.3.6 is the sixth maintenance release in the 2.3.x series. It is the
+result of on-going efforts to make our stable version more reliable and
+more stable. Most of the changes are fairly minor, fixes of smallish bugs,
+but a couple crashes have been fixed, as well.
-Compared with the latest stable release, this is the culmination of
-one year of hard work, and we sincerely hope you will enjoy the
-results. The changes are too numerous to summarize in a few words,
-with initial unicode support being the flagship among the new
-features, see the end of this announcement for details.
+One oft-requested feature (going back 13 years) is the ability to create
+new child documents from within the 'include file' dialog. This is now
+possible. Another equally old bug that has been fixed is that pasting
+table content outside a table no longer pastes tab characters.
-As usual with a major release, a lot of work that is not directly
-visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
-some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
+If you think you have found a bug in LyX 2.3.6, please open a bug report at
+http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome. If you're not sure whether it
+really is a bug, you can e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel
+<at> lists.lyx.org) and ask.
-The file RELEASE-NOTES lists some known issues with this release
-compared to the latest stable release (LyX 1.4.4). An updated list of
-issues might later be found at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ReleaseNotes
+If you have trouble using LyX or have a question, consult the documentation
+that comes with LyX (under the Help or Apple menu) and the LyX wiki, which
+is at http://wiki.lyx.org/. If you can't find the answer there, e-mail the
+LyX users' list (lyx-users <at> lists.lyx.org), where you will find an
+active community of people who are ready to help.
+We hope you enjoy using LyX 2.3.6.
-In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what
-http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject:
+The LyX team.
+http://www.lyx.org
- LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing
- based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance. It
- is released under a Free Software / Open Source license.
- LyX is for people that write and want their writing to look great,
- right out of the box. No more endless tinkering with formatting
- details, 'finger painting' font attributes or futzing around with page
- boundaries. You just write. In the background, Prof. Knuth's legendary
- TeX typesetting engine makes you look good.
+What's new
+==========
- On screen, LyX looks like any word processor; its printed output -- or
- richly cross-referenced PDF, just as readily produced -- looks like
- nothing else. Gone are the days of industrially bland .docs, all
- looking similarly not-quite-right, yet coming out unpredictably
- different on different printer drivers. Gone are the crashes 'eating'
- your dissertation the evening before going to press.
+** Updates:
+***********
- LyX is stable and fully featured. It is a multi-platform, fully
- internationalized application running natively on Unix/Linux and the
- Macintosh and modern Windows platforms.
+* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
-You can download LyX 1.5.0beta3 here (the .bz2 are compressed with
-bzip2, which yields smaller files):
+- Added layout for American Psychological Association (APA), v. 7 (apa7).
- ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.5.0beta3.tar.gz
- ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.5.0beta3.tar.bz2
-Note that due to the amount of changes no patch is provided to upgrade
-from version 1.4.4.
+* USER INTERFACE
-Prebuilt binaries (rpms for linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows
-installers) should soon be available at
- ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/
+- Improve UI of math matrix dialog UI (bug 11888).
+- Fix display of 'by chapter' labels in AMS classes (bug 11741).
-If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.5.0beta3, you may either
-e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel @ lists.lyx.org), or open
-a bug report at http://bugzilla.lyx.org
+- Add support for the doublestroke package in mathed (bug 11887).
-If you're having trouble using the new version of LyX, or have a question,
-first check out http://www.lyx.org/help/. If you can't find the answer there,
-e-mail the LyX users' list (lyx-users @ lists.lyx.org).
+- Fix behavior of text style dialog when "Immediate Apply" is checked (bug 11926).
-Enjoy!
+- Focus keyword field in Thesaurus dialog.
-The LyX team.
+- Allow creation of a child file from the include dialog (bug 4475).
+
+- Make sure to load the correct math fonts in certain cases.
+
+- Update autocorrect in mathed so that pressing '*' after a delimiter will
+ cycle through all sizes.
+- Display character styles along with fonts in status bar (bug 11951).
-What's new in version 1.5.0 (beta 3)?
-----------------------------
-* Unicode
+* MISCELLANEOUS
-LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew
-of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic
-languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to
-encodings current available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
-encoding or such brand new typesetting systems as XeTeX.
-Since the change to unicode touched much of the code base and some
-areas still need a cleanup it is very likely that some bugs related to
-the unicode transition still exist. Please have a look at the Known
-bugs in LyX 1.5 page if you encounter a bug that seems to be related
-to unicode. If it's not there, then please report it to the lyx-devel
-mailing list.
+- Adjust debug output for fonts by not breaking lines that should go together.
-* Integrated CJK support
-The very first result of the Unicode transition is that we have finally
-merged in the externally maintained CJK-LyX branch.
-The languages Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are now supported in
-the user interface.
-Note that from now on, former encoding settings for these languages
-done via ERT or the document preamble will lead to LaTeX-errors!
+* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
-* Multiple views of the same buffer
+- Update Czech, German, Italian, Slovak, Russian and French user interface localizations.
-LyX can now display multiple views of the same buffer. I.e., you can
-now open a single document in multiple windows and work on different
-parts of it synchronously.
+- Update French translation of Customization manual
-* Outliner and embedded TOC
-LyX has another long-awaited feature: a basic outliner mode, in which
-you can move chapters and sections around in the Table of Contents
-dialog. (The outliner has been backported and was released with LyX
-1.4.4.) The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window.
+* BUILD/INSTALLATION
-* Session management
+- Wininstaller, temporary remove the option to run LyX from the finish page
+ due to upcoming fix of the issue where after installing LyX as admin, this option
+ would execute LyX as admin too.
-LyX is now able to remember window size and position and it will
-reopen the documents you worked on last time around. If you've
-selected the feature in the Preferences dialog, it'll even move the
-cursor to the place you were working on last! Furthermore, toolbars
-can (finally!) be switched on/off in View->Toolbars and moved about in
-the LyX window. The session management will remember their state.
-* Source code Viewer
-As a kind of "anti-preview-latex", a dialog was implemented that lets
-you view the source code of a given paragraph/selection or the whole
-document.
+** Bug fixes:
+*************
-* New Font Selection Interface
+* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
-LyX's font selection abilities have been one of its weakest and most
-outdated components. A completely new interface was implemented that
-provides access to the power of LaTeX's font selection scheme.
-
-* Tabular extensions
+- Fix output of titles in branches and other insets (follow-up to bug 11787).
-LyX's table support is certainly less powerful than that of
-LaTeX. support for the booktabs package was implemented, which
-provides beautiful and elegant tabulars.
-
+- Fix clipping of vector images and when exporting from command line
+ (follow-up to bug 11180).
-* Nomenclatures
-Native LyX support for the nomencl package was implemented. With this,
-you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures,
-glossaries and fancy notations.
+* USER INTERFACE
-* Tabbed Widget
+- Fix crash when pasting math grid with more rows in source than target
+ (bug 11897).
-LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
+- Fix problem with drawing of auto-opened insets (bug 11870).
-* Enhanced Math Toolbars
+- Fix crash when rejecting changes and the cursor is in an inset that will be
+ deleted (bug 10316).
-The math toolbar was enhanced significantly. Drop down menus were
-added, that allowed to integrate all of the math panel' content to the
-math toolbars.
-Since this input method is much easier than the clumsy panel, the math
-panel itself has been removed and superseded by the toolbars.
+- Ask to save hidden dirty documents (bug 11405).
-* Frontend News
+- Fix background color of collapsible insets with sublabel.
-LyX 1.5 will use the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for
-Windows users, since there's an official, GPL version of Qt4. They no
-longer have to rely on an unofficial port of the Unix Qt3 library to
-Windows. The good old XForms frontend went the way of the dodo. It
-was both hated and loved, and certainly shaped the unique look of LyX
-in the past. It was finally killed off, however, by the switch to
-unicode. The Qt3 frontend was removed. The work on the GTK frontend
-has been transferred to a branch because its development has
-essentially stalled.
+- Do not paste tabulators when pasting multiple cell outside table (bug 4449).
-* Change tracking enhancements
+- Fix language when pasting multiple cell outside table (bug 11898).
-Major parts of the change tracking code were rewritten addressing
-several problems that existed in the existing implementation.
+- Fix input of decimal numbers in RtL context (bug 11900).
-* Converter file cache
+- Fix the LyX icon in the Wayland dash (bug 11847).
-A cache for converted files, such as included figures, was
-implemented. This can speed up LyX's performance considerably when
-displaying documents with many included figures that need conversion
-to a format that can be rendered on screen. The converter file cache
-is enabled by default.
+- Fix display bug when typing in a paragraph where row heights change (bug 11601).
-The default maximum age of a cached file is 6 months. You can change
-that with the line
+- Fix wrong marking-text-behavior with doubleclick on notebook touchpads (Windows)
- \converter_cache_maxage xxx
+- Fix spacing of limits of sum-like operators in display style.
-where xxx is the maximum age in seconds, in your preferences file.
+- Fix positioning of super- and subscripts with integral signs.
-* Unified Windows installer
+- Fix counter in bibliography inset (bug 11920).
-The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding
-both installers are welcome.
+- Do not allow editing of math package list in Document > Settings > Math Options,
+ thus preventing a crash (bug 11931).
-* Program listings
+- Maintain standard layout for separating paragraphs when switching layouts (bug 11936).
-The traditional way to insert program listings in LyX involves the use
-of the LyX-Code style. This option works quite well for short snippets but
-does not support in-line code segments or the inclusion of external files.
+- Prevent permanent disabling of widgets in Vertical/Horizontal Space dialogs
+ (bug 11952).
-Using the listings latex package as the backend a new inset was added that
-supports all these three ways of listing computer programs.
+- Fix behavior of Edit button in Include dialog.
-* Minor user interface improvements
+- Localize some previously unlocalized strings (bug 11954 ).
-Apart from the described major changes, several minor improvements of
-the user interface have been made, such as:
+- Fix bug where cursor blinks at the wrong position after changing layout (bug 11912).
- - Syntax highlighting for the user preamble and the LaTeX log file
- - Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog)
- - Support optional argument for environments
+- Fix PrettyFormat for Part (bug 11986).
-* Enhanced clipboard/selection handling
-
-Clipboard has been tuned to work better with other applications. Parallel
-to clipboard usages, the *nix way of using middle-button to paste
-selected text is enhanced, and is also available under windows (but
-within lyx only). Selection of lyx text is now persistent in that
-you can paste the selected text using middle button multiple times,
-even after the selection has been cleared.
+- Fix on-screen display of special math fonts (bug 11802).
+- Fix white frame border in fullscreen mode.
-* Under the hood
-As usual, one big task has been the ongoing code cleanup of the LyX
-core. Performing this cleanup makes the code more understandable and
-easier to maintain. It also leads inevitably to a more robust
-application. Nonetheless, it's an unfortunate fact of life that ugly
-code is sometimes faster than pretty code. We're well aware that LyX
-1.4 is slower than LyX 1.3. One important goal of this 1.5 development
-series has been to bring this speed back.
+* BUILD/INSTALLATION
-** Bug fixes
+- Wininstaller, fix bug where previous installations, with emergency version
+ greater than 1, could not be seen in registry on overinstall
-Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
-bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
+- Do not break configuration if a module file is not decodable (file
+ not encoded in utf-8). Rather than that, issue a warning and skip
+ that file (a variant of bug 11736).
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